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I really hate to agree with Gopher4Life on anything, but he’s right. I wouldn’t say “model” b/c Campbell is still progressing and not achieved the biggest goals yet.

Campbell is receiving interest from NFL teams for his success. Iowa State’s last 3 seasons of offenses are some of the most productive in Iowa State history and the last two years of defenses have been the best in the Big XII. This recruit plays DB.

The Big XII is not a “weak conference”. It has done well in the bowl season with quality wins and competitiveness the last couple years. The offenses are dynamic and the defenses generally do better against out of conference P5 opponents.

I really hate to agree with Gopher4Life on anything, but he’s right. I wouldn’t say “model” b/c Campbell is still progressing and not achieved the biggest goals yet.

Campbell is receiving interest from NFL teams for his success. Iowa State’s last 3 seasons of offenses are some of the most productive in Iowa State history and the last two years of defenses have been the best in the Big XII. This recruit plays DB.

The Big XII is not a “weak conference”. It has done well in the bowl season with quality wins and competitiveness the last couple years. The offenses are dynamic and the defenses generally do better against out of conference P5 opponents.

It may pain you to agree, but there is a near-pain-free solution. I just added him to my ignore list early on and although I still see he posts multiple times in pretty much every thread, I don't see the actual text/content so I am not tempted to interact with a person that just seems to be interested in seeing how many posts he can make and argue with everyone. I do wish when you ignored someone it would also hide their comments when someone else quotes them. But overall, the ignore list helps a lot and makes the site more enjoyable for me.

Ryan Burns had some good commentary on the McDonald situation. Evidently Iowa St offered him last March and made him a priority right away. We asked him to camp with us in June, and he performed well but we didn’t extend an offer until October. That didn’t sit well with him, which is part of the reason he’s at ISU. The analysis on him is that he’s a solid recruit, but the allure is that he has strong ties with Johnson and Lockett and would have given us (or a different B1G team) a better chance to land both of those two as well.

Bottom line, missing out on McDonald isn’t a huge deal. The fact that it will make it tougher to land Johnson and Lockett is.

McDonald would've been the 7th/8th-highest rated recruit signed had he been in our vaunted 2019 class - and yet it's "no big deal" that we didn't sign him. K.

The baseline expectation is that a Minnesota head coach should sign virtually every in-state 3-star recruit that he wants. And we should never lose an in-state recruit to Iowa St. Even a catastrophically horrible all-time worst recruiter like Tracy Claeys was able to cross that low threshold.

McDonald would've been the 7th/8th-highest rated recruit signed had he been in our vaunted 2019 class - and yet it's "no big deal" that we didn't sign him. K.

The baseline expectation is that a Minnesota head coach should sign virtually every in-state 3-star recruit that he wants. And we should never lose an in-state recruit to Iowa St. Even a catastrophically horrible all-time worst recruiter like Tracy Claeys was able to cross that low threshold.

McDonald is pretty much the first 3* in-state recruit that Fleck wanted and missed.

The odd thing about Hooker and Spielman is that we didn't seem very interested in them. Maybe Spielman told us early on that he wasn't interested or wanted to leave home, but both were strange.

I never understood why we didn't go after Amani Hooker.

With McDonald, I'm disappointed and surprised, but it's recruiting. A lot of things can play into it. Maybe he didn't want to go to college 10 minutes from his parents. Maybe he had a good relationship with Coach Campbell. Maybe his girlfriend is going to Iowa State (heck, maybe she's going to MN).